Yeah? Unlike you and your mother, I stop at stop signs.
Have a nice day, shitface.
You are bad at parody.
This is not, however, an excuse for the posters like anya marie and 11811 that couldn’t identify sarcasm even after it was explained to them.
I hate you too.
I love bicycles. That’s one thing I definitely miss over here. I’m not about to ride a bike in Bangkok. That would be sure suicide! Plus the climate is such that I’m bathed in sweat as it is simply walking a few hundred yeards down the road; would not want to add to that.
But I do miss the excellent bike lanes of Albuquerque and Honolulu. In Honolulu especially, I had a top-of-the-line Diamandback bike, and three times a week I’d ride it up to the top of Tantalus, the small mountain – okay, “hill” – overlooking the city. That put me in such good shape that I’d do the full 100 kilometers of the annual bike ride hosted by the Honolulu Advertiser newspaper. Not a race, just a pledge to ride the distance. I could do the 100k in 8 hours and 20 minutes, but I can’t remember now if that included hour spent soaking in the ocean at the halfway turnaround point on the North Shore of Oahu or was separate from it.
I feel you.
The main street I take into work cuts into a narrow street called Neil Ave which is a conglomeration of out-of-sync lights, stop signs, strigent one-ways, joggers, runners, dogs, and bicyclist galore. The City of Columbus had the nerve to put a sign that read “Share the Road” over a bicycle picture. I want to write on there “Build a fucking bike lane and I’ll share it.”
This is an uniquely American problem because the country as a whole does not have the infrastructure for anything but cars and is in the infancy of fostering a greener economy. It pisses me off that Chicago, Philadelphia, Boston have an alternative to cars or buses but the rest of the country doesn’t. Cities that have 500,000 - 1 million people should have a comprehensive rail system. I don’t understand why we don’t have a rail-version of the Interstate yet. What’s up with that?
- Honesty
There are trckloads of people who cannot cope with bicycles on the road. A bunch of them have Jesus bumper stickers and a bunch drive shitty cars. Roads are not built for cars and bicycles, AND pedestrians.
These people always expect me to get the hell out of the way for them, because they’re late, or other reasons, or they want me to violate the laws of physics, turning in front of garbage trucks going 45 mph. Their ignorant children shout things at me because i suppose it looks cool to the other idiots in the car with them. I can stop on a dime, but that is not enough when one considers how many things there are that can crush you like a bug.
I’m not going to apologize for taking my bicycle out to places less than a mile away.
I realize anecdote is not the same as data, but i’ve seen a lot. BTW Invisble Pink Unicorn smiles on those who do see me, who don’r drive with their head in the clouds or up their ass or wherever.
Yet? We used to. Both inter- and intra-city rail transport was once much better than it is now. We tore almost all of it down. Most passenger rail routes were abandoned, and many cities paved over streetcar tracks.
Putting that rhetoric degree to good use, I see.
I’d LOVE to pay $3.00/gallon for petrol! Today in the UK it’s $7.52 per US gallon.
The holes are for your fingers dumbass!
Wait a minute, that’s what the sticky residue was :eek:
HAR! That’s an ace, Ace.
BTW, I agree with whoever said my OP was lousy parody. Perhaps satire would be a better word for it; satire doesn’t have to be funny, and it can even troll.
Fuck, that was Ted? I hate that guy too! I was giving him a wide berth while passing him last week, and the asshole swung over towards me, making me wonder for a second if it would be better to hit the SUV coming the other way or kill him. If I’d have known it was Ted, I would have let him pull into the side of my car like he obviously wanted to. My car’s well-insured.